Posted by Michele on September 01, 2002 at 22:37:44:
In Reply to: I paid MUCH LESS for the Koi in my pond posted by MidnightMu on September 01, 2002 at 16:45:46:
adding color to your pond :-)
If you were going to do some serious showing of koi you would probably (eventually, anyway) be buying koi that have been bred for generations specifically for showing and breeding. Koi with an ancestral history befitting of royalty....those will run a person quite a bit more.
Your fish are quite lovely. You may be a bit overstocked but I don't know how many gallons you have. You want to figure 100 to 150 gallons per Koi. It may just be they are all crowding around for food :-D
Anyway, enjoy your fish and your water garden....few things are as peaceful to watch!
::there are some characteristics that are highly prized....what you spend is going to depend on what you get and who you are getting them from...and what you are going to do with them.
::For people who are going to show or breed, you really need the top quality. If you want a few in your pond and have no desire to show, you only want some color, and some nice fish, then you won't be spending as much.
:::howdy, i'm kinda baffled at the amazingly high prices for koi. how many of you here are buying koi for like a thousand dollars? or even just hundreds? please respond i'm very curious.
: :I'd like to share some pictures we just took of our fish. This picture shows a bunch of them feeding ... :
:I'm pretty much a newbie - have had a pond for a little over a year (though we had to rebuild it this spring, after damage from excessive run-off from the hills). My husband and I just wanted pretty fish in our "water garden" (pond is now about 11' x 22' and water is 24-30" in depth).
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:We bought most of our Koi last summer, but bought more this year, in addition to the baby Koi born this year. (And we had no losses over the Missouri winter.) We bought most of ours at 5-6", some at 6-8", a very few at about 10". We paid between $12.95 and $35 for our fish, and they're beautiful and doing very well. In fact, we've been very happily surprised at just how well they've done and how quickly they're growing.
